Importing the requirements

# Importing the required libraries for data manipulation, plotting, and modelling
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import seaborn as sns
import plotly.express as px
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
from sklearn.preprocessing import LabelEncoder, StandardScaler
from sklearn.metrics import accuracy_score, confusion_matrix, classification_report, roc_auc_score
from sklearn.linear_model import LogisticRegression
from sklearn.naive_bayes import GaussianNB
from sklearn.ensemble import RandomForestClassifier
from xgboost import XGBClassifier
from imblearn.over_sampling import SMOTE
from scipy.stats import ttest_ind, chi2_contingency, f_oneway
import streamlit as st

# Enables interactive Plotly charts inside Jupyter Notebook
import plotly.io as pio
pio.renderers.default = 'notebook_connected' 

import plotly.io as pio
pio.renderers.default = 'notebook'  

# Ensures that matplotlib plots display directly below the code cell in Jupyter Notebook
%matplotlib inline

Data Pre-processing

import pandas as pd

# Loading the dataset
df = pd.read_csv("heart.csv")
# Checking for missing values
print(df.isnull().sum())

Age               0
Sex               0
ChestPainType     0
RestingBP         0
Cholesterol       0
FastingBS         0
RestingECG        0
MaxHR             0
ExerciseAngina    0
Oldpeak           0
ST_Slope          0
HeartDisease      0
dtype: int64

As this dataset has no missing values, we are proceeding with further cleaning processes such as (One-Hot Coding and Standard Scaler).

One-Hot Coding:

# Prints all the columns in the dataset
print(df.columns)

Index(['Age', 'Sex', 'ChestPainType', 'RestingBP', 'Cholesterol', 'FastingBS',
       'RestingECG', 'MaxHR', 'ExerciseAngina', 'Oldpeak', 'ST_Slope',
       'HeartDisease'],
      dtype='object')

import pandas as pd

# Loading the dataset
df = pd.read_csv("heart.csv")
df.columns = df.columns.str.strip().str.lower() #removing the whitespaces and converting the column names to lowercase

# Identifying the categorical columns from the dataset
categorical_cols = df.select_dtypes(include='object').columns.tolist()

# Applying one-hot encoding using pandas
df_encoded = pd.get_dummies(df, columns=categorical_cols, drop_first=False)

# Displaying the output
print("Original shape:", df.shape)
print("Encoded shape:", df_encoded.shape)
df_encoded.head()

Original shape: (918, 12)
Encoded shape: (918, 21)

	age	restingbp	cholesterol	fastingbs	maxhr	oldpeak	heartdisease	sex_F	sex_M	chestpaintype_ASY	...	chestpaintype_NAP	chestpaintype_TA	restingecg_LVH	restingecg_Normal	restingecg_ST	exerciseangina_N	exerciseangina_Y	st_slope_Down	st_slope_Flat	st_slope_Up
0	40	140	289	0	172	0.0	0	0	1	0	...	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1
1	49	160	180	0	156	1.0	1	1	0	0	...	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0
2	37	130	283	0	98	0.0	0	0	1	0	...	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1
3	48	138	214	0	108	1.5	1	1	0	1	...	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0
4	54	150	195	0	122	0.0	0	0	1	0	...	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1

5 rows × 21 columns

Interpretation: This dataset has certain categorical features such as chestpain_type, sex of the patient, restingecg, slope_ST. And we cannot build machine learning models such as logistic regression, random Forest and XGBoost with these categorical features in it. Therefore, we apply One-Hot Coding to convert all the categorical features into numerical features. Thus making it easier to train our models and keep our categories equally weighted and unordered.

print(df_encoded.dtypes)

age                    int64
restingbp              int64
cholesterol            int64
fastingbs              int64
maxhr                  int64
oldpeak              float64
heartdisease           int64
sex_F                  uint8
sex_M                  uint8
chestpaintype_ASY      uint8
chestpaintype_ATA      uint8
chestpaintype_NAP      uint8
chestpaintype_TA       uint8
restingecg_LVH         uint8
restingecg_Normal      uint8
restingecg_ST          uint8
exerciseangina_N       uint8
exerciseangina_Y       uint8
st_slope_Down          uint8
st_slope_Flat          uint8
st_slope_Up            uint8
dtype: object

Now, we can see that all the categorical features have been converted to numerical features.

Standard Scaler:

#importing the required libraries
import pandas as pd
from sklearn.preprocessing import StandardScaler

#Loading the dataset
df = pd.read_csv("heart.csv") 

#Identifying the features to scale (excluding the target column)
features_to_scale = ['Age', 'RestingBP', 'Cholesterol', 'MaxHR', 'Oldpeak']
target_column = 'HeartDisease'

#Initialization of scaler
scaler = StandardScaler()

#Fitting and transforming the numerical features
df[features_to_scale] = scaler.fit_transform(df[features_to_scale])

#Displaying the scaled data
print(df.head())

        Age Sex ChestPainType  RestingBP  Cholesterol  FastingBS RestingECG  \
0 -1.433140   M           ATA   0.410909     0.825070          0     Normal   
1 -0.478484   F           NAP   1.491752    -0.171961          0     Normal   
2 -1.751359   M           ATA  -0.129513     0.770188          0         ST   
3 -0.584556   F           ASY   0.302825     0.139040          0     Normal   
4  0.051881   M           NAP   0.951331    -0.034755          0     Normal   

      MaxHR ExerciseAngina   Oldpeak ST_Slope  HeartDisease  
0  1.382928              N -0.832432       Up             0  
1  0.754157              N  0.105664     Flat             1  
2 -1.525138              N -0.832432       Up             0  
3 -1.132156              Y  0.574711     Flat             1  
4 -0.581981              N -0.832432       Up             0  

This above code loads the dataset and applies standard scaling to selected numerical features (Age, RestingBP, Cholesterol, MaxHR, and Oldpeak). Using StandardScaler, we transforms each feature to have mean = 0 and standard deviation = 1, which helps improve the performance of many machine learning models.

Descriptive Statistics

# Loading the dataset
df = pd.read_csv('heart.csv')

# Show the first five rows
print(df.head())

   Age Sex ChestPainType  RestingBP  Cholesterol  FastingBS RestingECG  MaxHR  \
0   40   M           ATA        140          289          0     Normal    172   
1   49   F           NAP        160          180          0     Normal    156   
2   37   M           ATA        130          283          0         ST     98   
3   48   F           ASY        138          214          0     Normal    108   
4   54   M           NAP        150          195          0     Normal    122   

  ExerciseAngina  Oldpeak ST_Slope  HeartDisease  
0              N      0.0       Up             0  
1              N      1.0     Flat             1  
2              N      0.0       Up             0  
3              Y      1.5     Flat             1  
4              N      0.0       Up             0  

import pandas as pd

# Loading the dataset
df = pd.read_csv('heart.csv')

# standardize the column names to lowercase
df.columns = df.columns.str.strip().str.lower()

# Shows total number of patient records
print(f"Total patient records: {len(df)}")

# Counts how many patients have heart disease (value == 1)
count_hd = (df['heartdisease'] == 1).sum()
print(f"Patients with heart disease: {count_hd}")

# Counts how many patients do not have heart disease (value == 0)
no_hd_count = (df['heartdisease'] == 0).sum()
print(f"Patients with no heart disease: {no_hd_count}")

Total patient records: 918
Patients with heart disease: 508
Patients with no heart disease: 410

# Summary statistics
print(df.describe())

              age   restingbp  cholesterol   fastingbs       maxhr  \
count  918.000000  918.000000   918.000000  918.000000  918.000000   
mean    53.510893  132.396514   198.799564    0.233115  136.809368   
std      9.432617   18.514154   109.384145    0.423046   25.460334   
min     28.000000    0.000000     0.000000    0.000000   60.000000   
25%     47.000000  120.000000   173.250000    0.000000  120.000000   
50%     54.000000  130.000000   223.000000    0.000000  138.000000   
75%     60.000000  140.000000   267.000000    0.000000  156.000000   
max     77.000000  200.000000   603.000000    1.000000  202.000000   

          oldpeak  heartdisease  
count  918.000000    918.000000  
mean     0.887364      0.553377  
std      1.066570      0.497414  
min     -2.600000      0.000000  
25%      0.000000      0.000000  
50%      0.600000      1.000000  
75%      1.500000      1.000000  
max      6.200000      1.000000  

Explanation of each row name:

Row Name	Description
count	Number of non-missing (non-NaN) entries in the column.
mean	The average (arithmetic mean) value of the column.
std	Standard deviation — how much the values vary from the mean.
min	Minimum value in the column.
25%	1st quartile (Q1) — 25% of values are below this.
50%	Median (Q2) — 50% of values are below this.
75%	3rd quartile (Q3) — 75% of values are below this.
max	Maximum value in the column.

Exploratory Data Analysis

# importing the required libraries
import plotly.graph_objects as go
import plotly.io as pio

# Set renderer to show plots in notebook
pio.renderers.default = 'notebook'

# Location coordinates: [latitude, longitude]
locations = {
    'Cleveland Clinic, USA': [41.4993, -81.6944],
    'VA Medical Center, USA': [33.7817, -118.1880],
    'Budapest, Hungary': [47.4979, 19.0402],
    'Zurich, Switzerland': [47.3769, 8.5417]
}

# Preparing the coordinates
lats = [loc[0] for loc in locations.values()]
lons = [loc[1] for loc in locations.values()]
names = list(locations.keys())

# Markers
flags = go.Scattergeo(
    lon=lons,
    lat=lats,
    text=names,
    mode='markers+text',
    marker=dict(size=10, color='red'),
    textposition='top center'
)

# marking the lines between each pair of locations
lines = []
loc_values = list(locations.values())
for i in range(len(loc_values)):
    for j in range(i + 1, len(loc_values)):
        lines.append(
            go.Scattergeo(
                lon=[loc_values[i][1], loc_values[j][1]],
                lat=[loc_values[i][0], loc_values[j][0]],
                mode='lines',
                line=dict(width=1, color='blue'),
                showlegend=False
            )
        )

# Creating the figure
fig = go.Figure(data=[flags] + lines)

# drawing the layout for globe
fig.update_layout(
    title='Visualization of the places of the aquisation of the Heart Dataset',
    showlegend=False,
    geo=dict(
        projection_type='orthographic',
        showland=True,
        landcolor='lightgray',
        oceancolor='lightblue',
        showocean=True,
        countrycolor='white',
        showcoastlines=True,
        coastlinecolor='gray'
    )
)

# displaying the globe
fig.show()

Univariate Analysis:

# importing the required libraries
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import seaborn as sns

# Loading and cleaning the dataset
df = pd.read_csv('heart.csv')
df.columns = df.columns.str.strip().str.lower()

# Defining the (quantitative) variables
continuous_vars = ['age', 'restingbp', 'cholesterol', 'maxhr', 'oldpeak']

# Plotting boxplots
plt.figure(figsize=(15, 8))
for i, var in enumerate(continuous_vars):
    plt.subplot(2, 3, i + 1)
    sns.boxplot(x=df[var], color='skyblue')
    plt.title(f'Boxplot of {var.capitalize()}')

# displaying the output
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

# importing the required libraries
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import seaborn as sns

# Loading and cleaning the dataset
df = pd.read_csv('heart.csv')
df.columns = df.columns.str.strip().str.lower()

# Defining the categorical variables
categorical_vars = ['sex', 'chestpaintype', 'restingecg', 'exerciseangina', 'st_slope']

# Plotting countplots
plt.figure(figsize=(15, 10))
for i, var in enumerate(categorical_vars):
    plt.subplot(2, 3, i + 1)
    sns.countplot(data=df, x=var, palette='Set2')
    plt.title(f'Count Plot of {var.capitalize()}')
    plt.xticks(rotation=30)
    
# displaying the output
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

Interpretation of output:

Univariate analysis focuses on analyzing one variable at a time, helping us understand its distribution, central tendency, variability, and potential issues (like outliers or skewness).

Numerical Variables (e.g., age, cholesterol, restingbp, oldpeak, maxhr) Boxplots shows:

1. Whether the variable is normally distributed or skewed
2. Presence of outliers (seen in cholesterol or oldpeak)
3. Range and concentration of values
4. Common age group or cholesterol levels among patients

Categorical Variables (e.g., sex, chestpaintype, restingecg, exerciseangina, heartdisease) Count plots shows:

1. Class distribution — e.g., how many males vs females
2. Which chest pain type is most common
3. Target variable balance — are more people with or without heart disease?

Bivariate Analysis:

# defining the Numerical features
numerical_vars = ['age', 'cholesterol', 'restingbp', 'maxhr', 'oldpeak']

# plotting the figure
plt.figure(figsize=(15, 10))
for i, var in enumerate(numerical_vars):
    plt.subplot(2, 3, i + 1)
    sns.violinplot(data=df, x='heartdisease', y=var, palette='Pastel1')
    plt.title(f'{var.capitalize()} by Heart Disease')
    plt.xlabel('Heart Disease')
    plt.ylabel(var.capitalize())

# displaying the output
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

Interpretation of output:

The above violin plots show the distribution and density of numerical features (like age, cholesterol, etc.) across the two target classes:

0 = No heart disease 1 = Has heart disease

These insights help us to understand how each feature relates to the likelihood of heart disease.

1. Age vs. Heart Disease

People with heart disease (1) tend to be older on average. Violin plot for class 1 is often shifted to higher ages.

2. Cholesterol vs. Heart Disease

The distribution can be wide and overlapping, meaning cholesterol alone is not a strong separator. Possible outliers may appear as long tails or thick bulges.

3. RestingBP vs. Heart Disease

Similar to cholesterol, may not have a clear separation. Still useful in combination with other variables (e.g., oldpeak or age).

4. MaxHR vs. Heart Disease

Lower MaxHR is often seen in heart disease patients. You may see the violin for class 1 more concentrated at lower heart rates.

5. Oldpeak vs. Heart Disease

This is usually a strong indicator. People with heart disease (1) often have higher oldpeak values (seen as wider top in class 1).

# KDE plot
# plotting the figure
plt.figure(figsize=(15, 10))
for i, var in enumerate(numerical_vars):
    plt.subplot(2, 3, i + 1)
    sns.kdeplot(data=df, x=var, hue='heartdisease', fill=True, common_norm=False, palette='Set1', alpha=0.4)
    plt.title(f'KDE: {var.capitalize()} by Heart Disease')
    plt.xlabel(var.capitalize())
    plt.ylabel('Density')

# displaying the output
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

Interpretation of output:

The KDE plot code is performing bivariate analysis using Kernel Density Estimation (KDE) to visualize the distribution of each numerical variable across the two classes of heartdisease.

This KDE plot does:

1. It plots the smoothed probability distribution for patients with and without heart disease.
2. Different colors are used for each class (0 = No, 1 = Yes) via hue='heartdisease'.
3. fill=True makes the curves easier to compare visually.
4. common_norm=False ensures each group is normalized independently for better comparison.

Finding insights from the output: 1. Shape & Overlap If the KDE curves for heart disease = 0 and 1 overlap heavily, the variable may not be a strong discriminator. Less overlap means the variable helps distinguish between the two groups.

2. Peak Shifts If one group has a peak at a higher or lower value, it indicates a trend: Example: oldpeak peaks at higher values for heart disease patients. maxhr peaks at higher values for healthy individuals.

Feature	Distribution Insight	Predictive Strength
Age	Older patients more likely have heart disease	Moderate
Cholesterol	Broad overlap; not a strong separator	Low
RestingBP	Overlapping curves; low separation	Low
MaxHR	Lower max HR seen in heart disease patients	Moderate to Strong
Oldpeak	Higher oldpeak values linked to heart disease	Strong

# Bar chart: Age vs Heart-disease
# Loading the dataset
df = pd.read_csv('heart.csv')
df.columns = df.columns.str.strip().str.lower() # removal of unwanted whitespaces and setting the column names to lower case

# Group by age and heart disease status
age_hd_counts = df.groupby(['age', 'heartdisease']).size().unstack(fill_value=0)

# Plotting the graph
age_hd_counts.plot(kind='bar', stacked=True, figsize=(10, 6), colormap='coolwarm')  # <- reduced size
plt.title('Bar chart: Heart Disease Frequency by Age')
plt.xlabel('Age')
plt.ylabel('Number of People')
plt.legend(['No Heart Disease', 'Heart Disease'])
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

Interpretation:

1. The x-axis shows age values (e.g., 28 to 77 years).
2. The y-axis shows the number of patients for each age.

Bars are stacked with:

1. One color for patients without heart disease (heartdisease = 0)
2. Another color for patients with heart disease (heartdisease = 1)
3. The chart shows the distribution of heart disease across age groups.

Insights drawn:

1. Age Groups with Highest Cases:

Some age groups (e.g., 52, 54, 58, 60) may have taller bars, meaning more people in that age range are in the dataset. We can identify peak heart disease ages if the upper segment (disease = 1) dominates.

2. Heart Disease Tends to Increase with Age:

In many datasets, you’ll notice that older age groups (50–65+) have more red or dark-colored segments → indicating more cases of heart disease. Younger ages (e.g., 30s, 40s) have smaller bars and often more blue → less likely to have heart disease.

3. Comparing Within Age Groups:

Within any specific age, if the red segment (disease = 1) is taller than blue, that age has more heart disease patients. Some mid-age groups might have balanced bars → indicating mixed risk.

# Scatter plot: oldpeak vs heart-disease
plt.figure(figsize=(10, 5))
sns.stripplot(data=df, x='heartdisease', y='oldpeak', jitter=True, palette='Set2')
plt.title('Scatter plot: Oldpeak vs Heart Disease')
plt.xlabel('Heart Disease (0 = No, 1 = Yes)')
plt.ylabel('Oldpeak (ST Depression after Exercise)')
plt.grid(True)
plt.show()

Interpretation of output:

Plot details:

1. x-axis: heartdisease (binary:0 = No heart disease, 1 = Heart disease)
2. y-axis: oldpeak values (ST depression after exercise)

Points: Each point is a patient, and their vertical position shows their oldpeak value.

jitter=True: Adds horizontal spread to prevent points from overlapping.

Color: Different hues (from Set2) for visual distinction.

Insights drawn:

1. Patients Without Heart Disease (x = 0):

1. Most points are clustered near oldpeak = 0.
2. Very few high oldpeak values.
3. This suggests lower ST depression is common among healthy patients.

2. Patients With Heart Disease (x = 1):

1. Wider spread of oldpeak values.
2. More patients have moderate to high oldpeak (e.g., values > 1.5).
3. Indicates higher ST depression is more associated with heart disease.

# Violin plot: age vs chestpain

# Loading the dataset and fixing the columns
df = pd.read_csv('heart.csv')
df.columns = df.columns.str.strip().str.lower()

# defining names of chest pain 
chest_pain_map = {
    'TA': 'Typical Angina',
    'ATA': 'Atypical Angina',
    'NAP': 'Non-Anginal Pain',
    'ASY': 'Asymptomatic'
}
df['chestpaintype'] = df['chestpaintype'].map(chest_pain_map)

# Dropping rows with missing age or chest paintype
df = df.dropna(subset=['chestpaintype', 'age'])

# displaying the Violin plot
plt.figure(figsize=(8, 6))
sns.violinplot(data=df, x='chestpaintype', y='age', palette='Set2')
plt.title('Age Distribution per Chest Pain Type')
plt.xlabel('Chest Pain Type')
plt.ylabel('Age')
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

Interpretation of output:

This violin plot visualizes how age is distributed across different types of chest pain, helping identify patterns in age-related chest pain presentations among heart patients.

Plot details:

x-axis: chestpaintype (Mapped categories: Typical Angina, Atypical Angina, Non-Anginal Pain, Asymptomatic)

y-axis: age of the patients

Violin Shape: Shows distribution, density, and spread of age for each chest pain category.

Insights drawn:

Chest Pain Type	Age Distribution Insight
Typical Angina	More common in older adults
Atypical Angina	Occurs in mid-age groups
Non-Anginal Pain	Wide range of ages affected
Asymptomatic	Seen mostly in older adults, may indicate silent risk

# Beeswarm plot: Cholestrol vs Heart-disease

# Loading the dataset
df = pd.read_csv('heart.csv')
df.columns = df.columns.str.strip().str.lower() # removal of unwanted whitespaces

# Ensuring correct data types
df['heartdisease'] = pd.to_numeric(df['heartdisease'], errors='coerce')
df['cholesterol'] = pd.to_numeric(df['cholesterol'], errors='coerce')

# Dropping missing values
df = df.dropna(subset=['cholesterol', 'heartdisease'])

# Plotting the graph
plt.figure(figsize=(8, 6))
sns.swarmplot(data=df, x='heartdisease', y='cholesterol', palette='Set2')
plt.title('Beeswarm plot: Cholesterol Levels vs Heart Disease')
plt.xlabel('Heart Disease (0 = No, 1 = Yes)')
plt.ylabel('Cholesterol (mg/dL)')
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

C:\Users\Sharon Karabel\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\seaborn\categorical.py:1296: UserWarning:

23.0% of the points cannot be placed; you may want to decrease the size of the markers or use stripplot.

Interpretation of output:

The beeswarm plot (a variation of a scatter plot with jittering) visualizes how cholesterol levels are distributed among patients with and without heart disease.

Plot details:

x-axis: heartdisease

1. 0 = No heart disease
2. 1 = Has heart disease

y-axis: cholesterol (in mg/dL)

Each dot: A single patient’s cholesterol level. Points are spread out horizontally to avoid overlap, giving a "beeswarm" look.

Insights drawn:

Observation	Interpretation
Wide overlap between class 0 and 1	Cholesterol is not a standalone discriminator
High values in both classes	Some patients have high cholesterol but no disease
Spread is more vertical than grouped	Cholesterol varies widely within both groups

# Heatmap for Heart-disease

# Loading the dataset
df = pd.read_csv('heart.csv')
df.columns = df.columns.str.strip().str.lower() # removal of unwanted whitespaces

# Selection of numeric columns
numeric_df = df.select_dtypes(include='number')

# Computation of the correlation matrix
corr_matrix = numeric_df.corr()

# Plotting the heatmap
plt.figure(figsize=(10, 8))
sns.heatmap(corr_matrix, annot=True, fmt=".2f", cmap="coolwarm", square=True, linewidths=0.5, cbar_kws={"shrink": 0.8})
plt.title("Correlation Matrix - Heart Disease Dataset", fontsize=14)
plt.xticks(rotation=45)
plt.yticks(rotation=0)
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

Interpretation of output:

This heatmap visualizes the correlation coefficients between all numeric variables in the dataset, helping identify relationships that are:

1. Strongly positive (values close to +1)
2. Strongly negative (values close to -1)
3. Weak or no correlation (values near 0)

The value shown at the intersection of two variables is the Pearson correlation coefficient. Color:

1. Dark red = strong positive correlation 2. Dark blue = strong negative correlation 3. Lighter shades = weak or no correlation

The diagonal is always 1.00 because each variable is perfectly correlated with itself.

Insights drawn:

Feature	Correlation	Meaning
oldpeak	+0.40	Higher ST depression = more likely heart disease
sex	+0.30	Males (usually coded as 1) more likely to have heart disease
chestpaintype	+0.28	Some chest pain types strongly associated with heart disease
fastingbs	+0.26	High fasting blood sugar may indicate heart risk
exerciseangina	–0.49	Presence of exercise-induced angina reduces heart disease likelihood (inverse)
maxhr	–0.40	Higher maximum heart rate = lower risk (healthy heart performance)
age	–0.22	Mild negative relation — older people slightly less represented (data-specific)
cholesterol	–0.06	Very weak relationship — cholesterol alone isn't a good predictor here

Sankey Diagram

import pandas as pd

# Load data
df = pd.read_csv('heart.csv')
df.columns = df.columns.str.strip().str.lower()

# Rename for consistency
df.rename(columns={'chestpaintype': 'ChestPainType', 'heartdisease': 'HeartDisease'}, inplace=True)

# Map HeartDisease values for clarity
df['HeartDisease'] = df['HeartDisease'].map({0: 'No Disease', 1: 'Heart Disease'})

# Group and count
grouped_counts = df.groupby(['ChestPainType', 'HeartDisease']).size().unstack(fill_value=0)

# Add a total column
grouped_counts['Total'] = grouped_counts.sum(axis=1)

# Display result
print(grouped_counts)

HeartDisease   Heart Disease  No Disease  Total
ChestPainType                                  
ASY                      392         104    496
ATA                       24         149    173
NAP                       72         131    203
TA                        20          26     46

# Sankey Diagram (chestpain vs heart disease)

# importing the required libraries
import pandas as pd
import plotly.graph_objects as go

# Loading the dataset
df = pd.read_csv('heart.csv')
df.columns = df.columns.str.strip().str.lower() # removal of unwanted whitespaces

# Renaming for consistency
df.rename(columns={'chestpaintype': 'ChestPainType', 'heartdisease': 'HeartDisease'}, inplace=True)

# Mapping HeartDisease 0/1 to readable labels
df['HeartDisease'] = df['HeartDisease'].map({0: 'No Disease', 1: 'Heart Disease'})

# Grouping of data
grouped = df.groupby(['ChestPainType', 'HeartDisease']).size().reset_index(name='count')

# Preparing the labels
chest_labels = grouped['ChestPainType'].unique().tolist()
disease_labels = ['No Disease', 'Heart Disease']
labels = chest_labels + disease_labels
label_indices = {label: idx for idx, label in enumerate(labels)}

# Creating source, target, and values
source = [label_indices[row['ChestPainType']] for _, row in grouped.iterrows()]
target = [label_indices[row['HeartDisease']] for _, row in grouped.iterrows()]
value = grouped['count'].tolist()

#  red links for heart disease
link_colors = ['red' if labels[t] == 'Heart Disease' else 'lightgray' for t in target]

# plotting Sankey Diagram
fig = go.Figure(data=[go.Sankey(
    node=dict(
        pad=15,
        thickness=20,
        line=dict(color="black", width=0.5),
        label=labels,
        color="lightblue"
    ),
    link=dict(
        source=source,
        target=target,
        value=value,
        color=link_colors
    )
)])

# displaying the diagram
fig.update_layout(
    title_text="Sankey Diagram: Chest Pain Type → Heart Disease Outcome",
    font_size=12
)

fig.show()

Interpretation of output:

The Sankey diagram illustrates the movement of patients experiencing various chest pain types to their corresponding heart disease results. This type of visualization is superb for displaying ratios and shifts among categorical characteristics.

Plot details:

Left nodes: Different chest pain types (e.g., ASY, ATA, NAP, TA)

Right nodes: Heart disease outcomes:

1. No Disease
2. Heart Disease

Links (flows):

Width = number of patients

Color: Red if the outcome is heart disease and gray if the outcomme is no heart disease

Insights drawn:

1. Asymptomatic (ASY): The largest red flow likely comes from ASY, indicating a high proportion of heart disease among asymptomatic patients.

Result: Many people with no noticeable symptoms (ASY) still have heart disease — a major risk indicator.

2. Atypical Angina (ATA) and Non-Anginal Pain (NAP) These chest pain types have more balanced flows, with both red and gray.

Result: ATA and NAP occur in both groups but tend to lean slightly more toward no disease.

3. Typical Angina (TA): May have fewer overall cases in the dataset. Possibly a mix of both outcomes or slightly skewed toward one.

# Simulated ECG Plot based on restingecg, oldpeak, maxhr

# importing the required libraries
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# Loading the dataset
df = pd.read_csv('heart.csv')
df.columns = df.columns.str.strip().str.lower() # removal of unwanted whitespaces

# Renaming and cleaning
df.rename(columns={'heartdisease': 'HeartDisease'}, inplace=True)

# Selection of 4 sample rows from the dataset
sample_df = df.sample(4, random_state=42)  # 2 with, 2 without disease

# generating a Simulated ECG waveform function
def generate_ecg_signal(heart_rate, oldpeak, rest_ecg, length=1.0, fs=250):
    t = np.linspace(0, length, int(length * fs))
    baseline = np.sin(2 * np.pi * heart_rate / 60 * t) * np.exp(-2 * t)
    if rest_ecg == 'LVH':
        baseline += 0.3 * np.sin(8 * np.pi * t)
    if rest_ecg == 'ST':
        baseline += 0.2
    baseline -= oldpeak * 0.2
    return t, baseline

# Plot setup
fig, axs = plt.subplots(2, 2, figsize=(12, 6))
axs = axs.flatten()

for i, (idx, row) in enumerate(sample_df.iterrows()):
    hr = row['maxhr'] if 'maxhr' in row else 80
    oldpeak = row['oldpeak'] if 'oldpeak' in row else 0
    rest_ecg = row['restingecg'] if 'restingecg' in row else 'Normal'
    disease = row['HeartDisease']
    
    t, ecg = generate_ecg_signal(hr, oldpeak, rest_ecg)
    axs[i].plot(t, ecg, color='red' if disease == 1 else 'green')
    axs[i].set_title(f"Patient {idx} | {'❤️ Disease' if disease == 1 else ' No Disease'}")
    axs[i].set_xlabel("Time (s)")
    axs[i].set_ylabel("Voltage")
    axs[i].grid(True)

# displaying the plots
plt.tight_layout()
plt.suptitle("Simulated ECG Plot", fontsize=16, y=1.02)
plt.show()

Interpretation:

We have taken 4 random samples from the dataset to setup the simulated ECG plot based on the maximum heart-rate(maxhr), oldpeak, restingecg. It helps us to visualize patient conditions and simulate how ECG readings might vary with different risk indicators.

Plot details:

Each subplot represents one patient's simulated ECG waveform.

Color:

🔴 Red: Patient has heart disease (HeartDisease = 1)

🟢 Green: No heart disease (HeartDisease = 0)

The waveform is generated using:

maxhr: Affects the frequency (how fast the heart beats)

oldpeak: ST depression, reduces the baseline

restingecg:

'Normal': Baseline sinusoidal

'LVH': Adds abnormal sinus component (left ventricular hypertrophy)

'ST': Adds an offset (ST abnormality)

Observations:

1. Waveform Shape: Healthy patients (green) generally have a smooth and regular waveform.

Heart disease patients (red) often show:

1. Flattened or depressed waveforms (from oldpeak)
2. Added noise or oscillations (if restingecg = LVH or ST)

2. Heart Rate Impact: Higher maxhr results in faster oscillations (tighter waveform cycles). You can visually compare heart rhythm frequency between patients.

3. Disease vs. Non-Disease: Simulated ECGs for patients with heart disease may show:

1. Depressed amplitude
2. Additional abnormalities or noise
3. Higher baseline if restingecg = ST

#2D - Density plot: Maxhr vs oldpeak

# Loading the dataset
df = pd.read_csv('heart.csv')
df.columns = df.columns.str.strip().str.lower()

# Checking for column names
if 'maxhr' not in df.columns or 'oldpeak' not in df.columns:
    raise ValueError("Columns 'maxhr' or 'oldpeak' not found in dataset.")

# Creating the 2D KDE plot
plt.figure(figsize=(8, 6))
sns.kdeplot(
    data=df,
    x='maxhr',
    y='oldpeak',
    fill=True,
    cmap='Reds',
    thresh=0.05,
    levels=100
)

# Adding labels, title and displaying the plot
plt.title('2D Density Plot: MaxHR vs Oldpeak')
plt.xlabel('Max Heart Rate Achieved')
plt.ylabel('Oldpeak (ST Depression)')
plt.grid(True)
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

Interpretation:

This 2D KDE (Kernel Density Estimate) plot visualizes the joint distribution between:

1. maxhr (Maximum Heart Rate Achieved)

2. oldpeak (ST depression induced by exercise)

It shows where patients are concentrated in terms of these two important clinical variables.

Plot details:

X-axis: maxhr – how high the patient's heart rate went

Y-axis: oldpeak – a measure of stress-induced ST depression

Color Intensity: Shows density of data points

Darker red = more patients in that region

Lighter/white = fewer or no patients

Observations:

1. Densest Region (Hotspot) Most patients cluster around:

1. maxhr between 130–170 bpm

2. oldpeak around 0 to 1

This suggests the majority of patients had normal ST response and moderately high heart rates during stress.

2. Rare Combinations Very few patients have:

1. oldpeak > 3 (severe ST depression)

2. maxhr < 100 (inability to reach high heart rate)

These could be potential high-risk cases, but rare in the dataset.

We might notice that as oldpeak increases, maxhr tends to decrease slightly, indicating possible heart dysfunction or exercise intolerance.

Hexbin Plot

plt.figure(figsize=(10, 6))
plt.hexbin(df['restingbp'], df['oldpeak'], gridsize=25, cmap='magma', bins='log')
plt.colorbar(label='log10(count)')
plt.xlabel('Resting Blood Pressure (mm Hg)')
plt.ylabel('Oldpeak (ST Depression)')
plt.title('Hexbin Plot: Resting BP vs Oldpeak')
plt.grid(alpha=0.3)
plt.show()

Interpretation:

The hexbin plot is a two-dimensional histogram using hexagonal bins to show the density of data points, especially useful when visualizing large datasets with overlapping values.

Plot details:

X-axis: restingbp — Resting Blood Pressure (in mm Hg)

Y-axis: oldpeak — ST Depression induced by exercise

Color Intensity (from the 'magma' colormap):

1. Represents log-scaled frequency of data points in each bin

2. Brighter/yellower hexes = More data points in that region

3. Darker/purpler hexes = Fewer data points

Colorbar: Shows the log10(count) scale of frequency

Observations:

Region on Plot	Interpretation
High concentration around BP ~120–140 & Oldpeak ~0	Most patients had normal blood pressure and no ST depression
Scattered points with high Oldpeak (>2)	Fewer patients had severe exercise-induced ST depression
Low RestingBP & High Oldpeak	Very rare — may signal abnormal or concerning cases

3D scatter plot

# 3D scatter plot

# importing the required libraries
import pandas as pd
import plotly.express as px

# Loading the dataset
df = pd.read_csv('heart.csv')
df.columns = df.columns.str.strip().str.lower()

# Converting categorical binary features
if df['sex'].dtype == 'object':
    df['sex'] = df['sex'].map({'M': 1, 'F': 0})
if df['exerciseangina'].dtype == 'object':
    df['exerciseangina'] = df['exerciseangina'].map({'Y': 1, 'N': 0})
if df['fastingbs'].dtype == 'object':
    df['fastingbs'] = df['fastingbs'].map({'Y': 1, 'N': 0})

# Choosing three important variables in the dataset
x_var = 'oldpeak'
y_var = 'maxhr'
z_var = 'age'

# Creating a 3D scatter plot with target as color
fig = px.scatter_3d(df, x=x_var, y=y_var, z=z_var,
                    color='heartdisease',
                    color_continuous_scale='RdBu',
                    title='3D Scatter Plot: Age vs MaxHR vs Oldpeak colored by Heart Disease')

fig.update_traces(marker=dict(size=4))
fig.update_layout(scene=dict(
    xaxis_title=x_var,
    yaxis_title=y_var,
    zaxis_title=z_var
))
fig.show()

Interpretation:

This 3D scatter plot created using Plotly provides an interactive visual analysis of three important features and their relation to heart disease presence (heartdisease = 1) or absence (heartdisease = 0).

Plot details:

X-axis → oldpeak: ST depression after exercise (a heart stress indicator)

Y-axis → maxhr: Maximum heart rate achieved

Z-axis → age: Patient’s age

Color → Indicates heart disease presence:

0 (typically shown in blue) → No heart disease

1 (typically shown in red) → Heart disease

Observations:

1. Clustering You may notice distinct clusters of red and blue points:

*Heart disease cases (red) often cluster in regions with:

Higher oldpeak

Lower maxhr

Older age

No disease cases (blue) appear in:

Lower oldpeak

Higher maxhr

Younger to middle-aged individuals

2. Correlations Inverse relation between maxhr and disease status:

Low max heart rate → more likely to have heart disease.

Positive relation between oldpeak and disease:

Higher ST depression → more red points (heart disease).

Age trend:

Older patients tend to be more frequently red-coded.

Feature	Trend in Heart Disease Patients
oldpeak	Higher
maxhr	Lower
age	Older

WHO/ISH chart

# ISH chart

# importing the required libraries
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from sklearn.preprocessing import LabelEncoder

# Loading the dataset
df = pd.read_csv("heart.csv")

# Encoding the categorical variables
categorical_cols = ['Sex', 'ChestPainType', 'RestingECG', 'ExerciseAngina', 'ST_Slope']
df_encoded = df.copy()
for col in categorical_cols:
    df_encoded[col] = LabelEncoder().fit_transform(df_encoded[col])

# Calculating the importance (correlation with target)
correlations = df_encoded.corr()['HeartDisease'].drop('HeartDisease')

# Defining severity (using standard deviation as a proxy)
severity = df_encoded[correlations.index].std()

# Defining hazard level (proportion of extreme values, simplified)
hazard = {}
for col in correlations.index:
    q1 = df_encoded[col].quantile(0.25)
    q3 = df_encoded[col].quantile(0.75)
    iqr = q3 - q1
    outliers = ((df_encoded[col] < (q1 - 1.5 * iqr)) | (df_encoded[col] > (q3 + 1.5 * iqr))).sum()
    hazard[col] = outliers / len(df_encoded)

# Converting to DataFrame
ish_df = pd.DataFrame({
    'Feature': correlations.index,
    'Importance': correlations.values,
    'Severity': severity.values,
    'Hazard': [hazard[f] for f in correlations.index]
})

# Plotting the ISH Chart
plt.figure(figsize=(10, 7))
scatter = plt.scatter(
    ish_df['Importance'],
    ish_df['Severity'],
    s=ish_df['Hazard'] * 1500 + 20,  # Scale size for visibility
    c=ish_df['Hazard'],
    cmap='Reds',
    alpha=0.8,
    edgecolors='black'
)
plt.xlabel("Importance (Correlation with Heart Disease)")
plt.ylabel("Severity (Standard Deviation)")
plt.title("ISH Chart of Medical Risk Factors")
plt.colorbar(label="Hazard Level (Outlier Proportion)")

# Annotating the feature names
for _, row in ish_df.iterrows():
    plt.text(row['Importance'], row['Severity'], row['Feature'], fontsize=9, ha='right')

plt.grid(True, linestyle='--', alpha=0.5)
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

Interpretation:

The ISH chart (Importance-Severity-Hazard) is an advanced visualization that helps evaluate features based on:

Importance: how strongly a feature correlates with the target (HeartDisease)

Severity: the variability (standard deviation) of a feature

Hazard: proportion of extreme or outlier values in the feature

Plot details:

X-axis: Feature Importance (correlation)

Y-axis: Severity Score (based on domain knowledge or variance)

Size/Color: Hazard Level (based on anomaly count or outlier proportion)

Feature	Importance	Severity	Hazard Level	Interpretation
Oldpeak	High	Moderate	High	Strong predictor of heart disease, and extreme values indicate serious ST depression (ischemia).
ChestPainType	High	Low	Moderate	Highly predictive, but doesn’t vary as much — likely categorical.
ST_Slope	Moderate	Low	Low	Useful predictor, not many outliers.
MaxHR	Moderate	High	Moderate	Strong clinical variability, may indicate exercise tolerance issues.
Cholesterol	Low	High	Very High	Not a strong predictor here, but many extreme values suggest data quality issues or rare conditions.
RestingBP	Low	Moderate	High	Not a strong predictor on its own, but outliers may flag hypertensive emergencies.

1. Features like Oldpeak and ChestPainType are highly important, and Oldpeak also carries a high hazard due to extreme clinical readings.

2. Cholesterol, while clinically important, shows low predictive power here — possibly due to data entry errors (e.g., zeros).

This chart helps balance statistical importance with clinical risk, making it a powerful tool for explainable AI in healthcare.

Feature Engineering for Exploratory Insights

import pandas as pd

# Loading and cleaning the data
df = pd.read_csv('heart.csv')
df.columns = df.columns.str.strip().str.lower()

# Converting binary categorical features to numeric features
if df['fastingbs'].dtype == 'object':
    df['fastingbs'] = df['fastingbs'].map({'Y': 1, 'N': 0})
if df['exerciseangina'].dtype == 'object':
    df['exerciseangina'] = df['exerciseangina'].map({'Y': 1, 'N': 0})

# Categorization of the age group
df['age_group'] = pd.cut(df['age'],
                         bins=[0, 40, 60, 100],
                         labels=['Young', 'Middle-aged', 'Senior'])

# Composite metabolic risk: cholesterol (normalized) + fastingbs
df['cholesterol_norm'] = (df['cholesterol'] - df['cholesterol'].min()) / (df['cholesterol'].max() - df['cholesterol'].min())
df['metabolic_risk'] = df['cholesterol_norm'] + df['fastingbs']

# Severe stress flag: oldpeak > 2 and exerciseangina = 1
df['severe_stress'] = ((df['oldpeak'] > 2) & (df['exerciseangina'] == 1)).astype(int)

# Preview new columns
print(df[['age', 'age_group', 'cholesterol', 'fastingbs', 'metabolic_risk', 'oldpeak', 'exerciseangina', 'severe_stress']].head())

   age    age_group  cholesterol  fastingbs  metabolic_risk  oldpeak  \
0   40        Young          289          0        0.479270      0.0   
1   49  Middle-aged          180          0        0.298507      1.0   
2   37        Young          283          0        0.469320      0.0   
3   48  Middle-aged          214          0        0.354892      1.5   
4   54  Middle-aged          195          0        0.323383      0.0   

   exerciseangina  severe_stress  
0               0              0  
1               0              0  
2               0              0  
3               1              0  
4               0              0  

Interpretation:

We perform feature engineering by transforming and creating new variables to extract more meaningful insights from the dataset.

Steps taken:

1. We converted the categorical features into binary features for e.g: Converts text labels ('Y', 'N') into numeric binary (1, 0) values.

2. We created a new categorical feature called age_group which makes it easier to analyze heart disease prevalence by life stage.

3. We normalized cholestrol between 0 and 1. We combine it with fastingbs to create a composite risk factor called metabolic_risk. It helps to flag patients with high cholestrol and high BP.

4. We flag patient experiencing exercise-induced stress AND ST depression > 2. These conditions together may indicate critical heart risk. severe_stress = 1 means the patient likely needs further attention.

We then finally print the new columns:

1. age_group

2. cholesterol_norm

3. metabolic_risk

4. severe_stress

# importing the required dataset
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import seaborn as sns

# Loading the data
df = pd.read_csv('heart.csv')
df.columns = df.columns.str.strip().str.lower()

# Converting 'Y'/'N' binary columns to 1/0 
if df['fastingbs'].dtype == 'object':
    df['fastingbs'] = df['fastingbs'].map({'Y': 1, 'N': 0})
if df['exerciseangina'].dtype == 'object':
    df['exerciseangina'] = df['exerciseangina'].map({'Y': 1, 'N': 0})

# performing Feature Engineering
df['age_group'] = pd.cut(df['age'], bins=[0, 40, 60, 100], labels=['Young', 'Middle-aged', 'Senior'])
df['cholesterol_norm'] = (df['cholesterol'] - df['cholesterol'].min()) / (df['cholesterol'].max() - df['cholesterol'].min())
df['metabolic_risk'] = df['cholesterol_norm'] + df['fastingbs']
df['severe_stress'] = ((df['oldpeak'] > 2) & (df['exerciseangina'] == 1)).astype(int)

# Plotting the graphs
plt.figure(figsize=(15, 10))

# 1. Age Group Count
plt.subplot(2, 2, 1)
sns.countplot(x='age_group', data=df, palette='Set2')
plt.title('Count of Patients by Age Group')
plt.ylabel('Number of Patients')

# 2. Violin Plot of Metabolic Risk vs Heart Disease
plt.subplot(2, 2, 2)
sns.violinplot(x='heartdisease', y='metabolic_risk', data=df, palette='coolwarm')
plt.title('Metabolic Risk by Heart Disease Status')
plt.xlabel('Heart Disease (0 = No, 1 = Yes)')

# 3. Boxplot of Cholesterol (Normalized) by Age Group
plt.subplot(2, 2, 3)
sns.boxplot(x='age_group', y='cholesterol_norm', data=df, palette='Set3')
plt.title('Cholesterol (Normalized) by Age Group')

# 4. Severe Stress vs Heart Disease
plt.subplot(2, 2, 4)
sns.countplot(x='severe_stress', hue='heartdisease', data=df, palette='Set1')
plt.title('Severe Stress vs Heart Disease')
plt.xlabel('Severe Stress (1 = Yes, 0 = No)')
plt.ylabel('Number of Patients')

# displaying the plots
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

IMPORTANT NOTE:

“These features were engineered during EDA to explore patterns in the data. However, they were not included in model training.”

Feature Importance Analysis

import pandas as pd
from sklearn.ensemble import RandomForestClassifier
from sklearn.preprocessing import LabelEncoder
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split

# Load dataset
df = pd.read_csv("heart.csv")  

# Clean column names 
df.columns = df.columns.str.strip()

# Encode categorical variables
df_encoded = df.copy()
categorical_cols = ['Sex', 'ChestPainType', 'RestingECG', 'ExerciseAngina', 'ST_Slope']
for col in categorical_cols:
    if col in df_encoded.columns:
        df_encoded[col] = LabelEncoder().fit_transform(df_encoded[col])
    else:
        print(f"⚠️ Column '{col}' not found in the dataframe!")

# Preparing features and target
X = df_encoded.drop(columns=['HeartDisease'])
y = df_encoded['HeartDisease']

# Train/test split
X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X, y, random_state=42)

# Training Random Forest model
model = RandomForestClassifier()
model.fit(X_train, y_train)

# Feature importances
importances = pd.Series(model.feature_importances_, index=X.columns).sort_values(ascending=False)
print(importances)

ST_Slope          0.242766
Cholesterol       0.113802
Oldpeak           0.108979
ExerciseAngina    0.103862
MaxHR             0.100141
ChestPainType     0.091722
Age               0.089734
RestingBP         0.069247
Sex               0.035929
RestingECG        0.025776
FastingBS         0.018043
dtype: float64

Interpretation:

1. Higher score → More influence in the decision-making process of the model.

2. Lower score (near 0) → Minimal or no contribution to prediction.

ST_Slope has the highest importance (0.24), it means this is the most influential factor for predicting heart disease in our dataset.

FastingBS has the lowest importance (0.018), it means this has no impact on the model's decisions as it has low variance.

Performing Two-Sample T-test

Quantitative variables in our dataset:

Column Name	Description
age	Age in years
restingbp	Resting blood pressure (in mm Hg)
cholesterol	Serum cholesterol (in mg/dL)
maxhr	Maximum heart rate achieved
oldpeak	ST depression induced by exercise

# performing Independent t-tests for the 5 quantitative/continuous variables
from scipy.stats import ttest_ind
import pandas as pd

# Load dataset
df = pd.read_csv("heart.csv")

# Clean column names 
df.columns = df.columns.str.strip()

# Split dataset based on HeartDisease outcome
group_0 = df[df['HeartDisease'] == 0]
group_1 = df[df['HeartDisease'] == 1]

# 5 Quantitative features to test
features = ['Age', 'RestingBP', 'Cholesterol', 'MaxHR', 'Oldpeak']
ttest_results = []

# Performing t-tests
for feature in features:
    stat, p = ttest_ind(group_0[feature], group_1[feature], nan_policy='omit')
    ttest_results.append((feature, round(stat, 2), round(p, 3)))

# Prints results
print("\nT-Test Results (Numerical Features vs Heart Disease)\n")
print(f"{'Feature':<15} {'t-statistic':<15} {'p-value'}")
print("-" * 45)
for feature, stat, p in ttest_results:
    print(f"{feature:<15} {stat:<15} {p}")

T-Test Results (Numerical Features vs Heart Disease)

Feature         t-statistic     p-value
---------------------------------------------
Age             -8.9            0.0
RestingBP       -3.28           0.001
Cholesterol     7.24            0.0
MaxHR           13.23           0.0
Oldpeak         -13.36          0.0

Interpretation:

Null Hypothesis (H₀): There is no significant difference in the mean value of the variable between patients with and without heart disease.

Alternative Hypothesis (H₁): There is a significant difference in the mean value of the variable between the two groups.

Test Type Used: Independent two-sample t-test (Two-tailed)

Significance level: typically (α=0.05)

Observations:

Feature	t-statistic	p-value	Significant? (p < 0.05)	Interpretation
Age	-8.90	0.000	✅ Yes	Heart disease patients are significantly older than non-heart patients.
RestingBP	-3.28	0.001	✅ Yes	Resting blood pressure is significantly lower in heart disease patients.
Cholesterol	7.24	0.000	✅ Yes	Heart disease patients have significantly higher cholesterol levels.
MaxHR	13.23	0.000	✅ Yes	Maximum heart rate is significantly higher in heart disease patients. (Unusual; may need to check data)
Oldpeak	-13.36	0.000	✅ Yes	Oldpeak is significantly lower in heart disease patients. (Also unusual, usually it increases)

Performing CHI2 Test:

Qualitative variables in our dataset:

Column Name	Description
sex	Biological sex of the patient (Male, Female)
chestpaintype	Type of chest pain: • TA – Typical Angina • ATA – Atypical Angina • NAP – Non-Anginal Pain • ASY – Asymptomatic
restingecg	Resting electrocardiogram results: • Normal – Normal ECG • ST – ST-T wave abnormality • LVH Left ventricular hypertrophy
exerciseangina	Exercise-induced angina: • 1 – Yes • 0 – No
st_slope	Slope of the peak exercise ST segment: • Up – Upsloping • Flat – Flat • Down – Downsloping

# performing chi-square test for 5 categorical variables

#importing the required libraries
import pandas as pd
from scipy.stats import chi2_contingency

# Loading the dataset
df = pd.read_csv("heart.csv")
df.columns = df.columns.str.strip().str.lower() #removal of unwanted whitespaces

# Defining the categorical variables to test
categorical_vars = ['sex', 'chestpaintype', 'restingecg', 'exerciseangina', 'st_slope']

print("Chi-Square Test Results:\n")

# Performing Chi-Square test for each variable
for var in categorical_vars:
    contingency_table = pd.crosstab(df[var], df['heartdisease'])
    chi2, p, dof, expected = chi2_contingency(contingency_table)

    print(f"Variable: {var}")
    print(f"Chi2 Statistic = {chi2:.3f}, p-value = {p:.4f}, Degrees of Freedom = {dof}")
    if p < 0.05:
        print("➡️ Significant association with Heart Disease (Reject H0)\n")
    else:
        print("➡️ No significant association with Heart Disease (Fail to Reject H0)\n")

Chi-Square Test Results:

Variable: sex
Chi2 Statistic = 84.145, p-value = 0.0000, Degrees of Freedom = 1
➡️ Significant association with Heart Disease (Reject H0)

Variable: chestpaintype
Chi2 Statistic = 268.067, p-value = 0.0000, Degrees of Freedom = 3
➡️ Significant association with Heart Disease (Reject H0)

Variable: restingecg
Chi2 Statistic = 10.931, p-value = 0.0042, Degrees of Freedom = 2
➡️ Significant association with Heart Disease (Reject H0)

Variable: exerciseangina
Chi2 Statistic = 222.259, p-value = 0.0000, Degrees of Freedom = 1
➡️ Significant association with Heart Disease (Reject H0)

Variable: st_slope
Chi2 Statistic = 355.918, p-value = 0.0000, Degrees of Freedom = 2
➡️ Significant association with Heart Disease (Reject H0)

Interpretation:

Null Hypothesis (H₀): The mean heart disease status (i.e., probability of having heart disease) is the same across all categories of the variable.

Alternative Hypothesis (H₁): At least one category has a different mean heart disease status, suggesting an association with heart disease.

Test Type used: Chi_square test

Significance Level: typically (α=0.05)

Note: For each categorical feature in the dataset, we formulated and tested hypotheses to evaluate its association with heart disease status.

Observations:

Variable	Chi² Statistic	p-value	df	Significant? (p < 0.05)	Interpretation
Sex	84.15	0.0000	1	✅ Yes	There is a significant association between sex and heart disease.
ChestPainType	268.07	0.0000	3	✅ Yes	Chest pain type is strongly associated with heart disease.
RestingECG	10.93	0.0042	2	✅ Yes	Resting ECG results are significantly related to heart disease.
ExerciseAngina	222.26	0.0000	1	✅ Yes	Exercise-induced angina is highly associated with heart disease.
ST_Slope	355.92	0.0000	2	✅ Yes	ST segment slope shows a very strong association with heart disease.

Contigency tables of Categorical variables vs Heart Disease

import pandas as pd
from tabulate import tabulate

# Clean up column names
df.columns = df.columns.str.strip().str.lower()

# List of categorical variables (in lowercase now)
categorical_vars = ['sex', 'chestpaintype', 'restingecg', 'exerciseangina', 'st_slope']

# prints the results
for var in categorical_vars:
    print(f"\nContingency Table: {var} vs heartdisease\n")
    table = pd.crosstab(df[var], df['heartdisease'], margins=True)
    table.columns = ['heartdisease = 0', 'heartdisease = 1', 'total']
    table.index.name = var
    table.reset_index(inplace=True)
    print(tabulate(table, headers='keys', tablefmt='grid'))

Contingency Table: sex vs heartdisease

+----+-------+--------------------+--------------------+---------+
|    | sex   |   heartdisease = 0 |   heartdisease = 1 |   total |
+====+=======+====================+====================+=========+
|  0 | F     |                143 |                 50 |     193 |
+----+-------+--------------------+--------------------+---------+
|  1 | M     |                267 |                458 |     725 |
+----+-------+--------------------+--------------------+---------+
|  2 | All   |                410 |                508 |     918 |
+----+-------+--------------------+--------------------+---------+

Contingency Table: chestpaintype vs heartdisease

+----+-----------------+--------------------+--------------------+---------+
|    | chestpaintype   |   heartdisease = 0 |   heartdisease = 1 |   total |
+====+=================+====================+====================+=========+
|  0 | ASY             |                104 |                392 |     496 |
+----+-----------------+--------------------+--------------------+---------+
|  1 | ATA             |                149 |                 24 |     173 |
+----+-----------------+--------------------+--------------------+---------+
|  2 | NAP             |                131 |                 72 |     203 |
+----+-----------------+--------------------+--------------------+---------+
|  3 | TA              |                 26 |                 20 |      46 |
+----+-----------------+--------------------+--------------------+---------+
|  4 | All             |                410 |                508 |     918 |
+----+-----------------+--------------------+--------------------+---------+

Contingency Table: restingecg vs heartdisease

+----+--------------+--------------------+--------------------+---------+
|    | restingecg   |   heartdisease = 0 |   heartdisease = 1 |   total |
+====+==============+====================+====================+=========+
|  0 | LVH          |                 82 |                106 |     188 |
+----+--------------+--------------------+--------------------+---------+
|  1 | Normal       |                267 |                285 |     552 |
+----+--------------+--------------------+--------------------+---------+
|  2 | ST           |                 61 |                117 |     178 |
+----+--------------+--------------------+--------------------+---------+
|  3 | All          |                410 |                508 |     918 |
+----+--------------+--------------------+--------------------+---------+

Contingency Table: exerciseangina vs heartdisease

+----+------------------+--------------------+--------------------+---------+
|    | exerciseangina   |   heartdisease = 0 |   heartdisease = 1 |   total |
+====+==================+====================+====================+=========+
|  0 | N                |                355 |                192 |     547 |
+----+------------------+--------------------+--------------------+---------+
|  1 | Y                |                 55 |                316 |     371 |
+----+------------------+--------------------+--------------------+---------+
|  2 | All              |                410 |                508 |     918 |
+----+------------------+--------------------+--------------------+---------+

Contingency Table: st_slope vs heartdisease

+----+------------+--------------------+--------------------+---------+
|    | st_slope   |   heartdisease = 0 |   heartdisease = 1 |   total |
+====+============+====================+====================+=========+
|  0 | Down       |                 14 |                 49 |      63 |
+----+------------+--------------------+--------------------+---------+
|  1 | Flat       |                 79 |                381 |     460 |
+----+------------+--------------------+--------------------+---------+
|  2 | Up         |                317 |                 78 |     395 |
+----+------------+--------------------+--------------------+---------+
|  3 | All        |                410 |                508 |     918 |
+----+------------+--------------------+--------------------+---------+

Anamoly Detection for Numerical features

# Anamoly detection for all the 5 quantitative variables

import pandas as pd

# Load the dataset
df = pd.read_csv('heart.csv')
df.columns = df.columns.str.strip().str.lower()

# Convert known categorical values
if df['exerciseangina'].dtype == 'object':
    df['exerciseangina'] = df['exerciseangina'].map({'Y': 1, 'N': 0})
if df['fastingbs'].dtype == 'object':
    df['fastingbs'] = df['fastingbs'].map({'Y': 1, 'N': 0})

# Ensure numerical fields are parsed correctly
numerical_cols = ['age', 'restingbp', 'cholesterol', 'maxhr', 'oldpeak']
for col in numerical_cols:
    df[col] = pd.to_numeric(df[col], errors='coerce')

# Define rules for anomaly detection per variable
anomalies = df[
    (df['age'] < 30) | (df['age'] > 80) |
    (df['restingbp'] < 60) | (df['restingbp'] > 200) |
    (df['cholesterol'] < 100) | (df['cholesterol'] > 400) |
    (df['maxhr'] < 60) | (df['maxhr'] > 220) |
    (df['oldpeak'] < 0) | (df['oldpeak'] > 6)
]

# Display anomaly summary
print(f"Detected {len(anomalies)} numerical anomalies based on clinical/statistical thresholds.")
display(anomalies)

Detected 192 numerical anomalies based on clinical/statistical thresholds.

	age	sex	chestpaintype	restingbp	cholesterol	fastingbs	restingecg	maxhr	exerciseangina	oldpeak	st_slope	heartdisease
28	53	F	ATA	113	468	0	Normal	127	0	0.0	Up	0
30	53	M	NAP	145	518	0	Normal	130	0	0.0	Flat	1
69	44	M	ASY	150	412	0	Normal	170	0	0.0	Up	0
76	32	M	ASY	118	529	0	Normal	130	0	0.0	Flat	1
98	56	M	ASY	120	85	0	Normal	140	0	0.0	Up	0
...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...
624	63	F	ASY	150	407	0	LVH	154	0	4.0	Flat	1
667	65	F	NAP	140	417	1	LVH	157	0	0.8	Up	0
796	56	F	ASY	134	409	0	LVH	150	1	1.9	Flat	1
829	29	M	ATA	130	204	0	LVH	202	0	0.0	Up	0
850	62	F	ASY	160	164	0	LVH	145	0	6.2	Down	1

192 rows × 12 columns

NOTE:

192 medically unusual records has been detected. We will detect and handle them using IQR method.

import pandas as pd

# Load the dataset
df = pd.read_csv("heart.csv")
df.columns = df.columns.str.lower()

# Select numerical columns
numerical_cols = ['age', 'restingbp', 'cholesterol', 'maxhr', 'oldpeak']

# Function to remove outliers using IQR
def remove_outliers_iqr(data, column):
    Q1 = data[column].quantile(0.25)
    Q3 = data[column].quantile(0.75)
    IQR = Q3 - Q1
    lower = Q1 - 1.5 * IQR
    upper = Q3 + 1.5 * IQR
    return data[(data[column] >= lower) & (data[column] <= upper)]

# Applying IQR cleaning to all numerical columns
cleaned_df = df.copy()
for col in numerical_cols:
    cleaned_df = remove_outliers_iqr(cleaned_df, col)

print(f"Original rows: {len(df)}")
print(f"After outlier removal: {len(cleaned_df)}")

Original rows: 918
After outlier removal: 701

import pandas as pd
import seaborn as sns
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# Load the dataset
df = pd.read_csv("heart.csv")

# List of columns to clean and visualize
columns_to_clean = ['Age', 'RestingBP', 'MaxHR', 'Oldpeak', 'Cholesterol']

# Function to remove outliers using IQR method
def remove_outliers_iqr(data, column):
    Q1 = data[column].quantile(0.25)
    Q3 = data[column].quantile(0.75)
    IQR = Q3 - Q1
    lower_bound = Q1 - 1.5 * IQR
    upper_bound = Q3 + 1.5 * IQR
    return data[(data[column] >= lower_bound) & (data[column] <= upper_bound)]

# Creating a subplot grid: one row per feature, two columns
fig, axes = plt.subplots(len(columns_to_clean), 2, figsize=(12, 18))

for i, col in enumerate(columns_to_clean):
    # Before outlier removal
    sns.boxplot(x=df[col], ax=axes[i, 0], color='tomato')
    axes[i, 0].set_title(f'{col} - Before Outlier Removal')

    # After outlier removal
    cleaned = remove_outliers_iqr(df, col)
    sns.boxplot(x=cleaned[col], ax=axes[i, 1], color='mediumseagreen')
    axes[i, 1].set_title(f'{col} - After Outlier Removal')
    
# displaying the results
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

Anamoly Detection for Categorical Features

import pandas as pd

# Load dataset
df = pd.read_csv("heart.csv")
df.columns = df.columns.str.strip().str.lower()

# Handling categorical encodings
if df['exerciseangina'].dtype == 'object':
    df['exerciseangina'] = df['exerciseangina'].map({'Y': 1, 'N': 0})
if df['fastingbs'].dtype == 'object':
    df['fastingbs'] = df['fastingbs'].map({'Y': 1, 'N': 0})

# Converting categorical-like variables
categorical_cols = ['sex', 'chestpaintype', 'fastingbs', 'restingecg', 'exerciseangina', 'st_slope']

# Detect rare values (frequency < 5% of total)
rare_flags = []
total_rows = len(df)

for col in categorical_cols:
    rare_values = df[col].value_counts(normalize=True)
    rare_categories = rare_values[rare_values < 0.05].index.tolist()
    
    # Flag rows with rare categories
    flagged = df[df[col].isin(rare_categories)]
    if not flagged.empty:
        flagged['flagged_column'] = col
        flagged['rare_value'] = flagged[col]
        rare_flags.append(flagged)

# Combining all flagged rows
if rare_flags:
    rare_cases = pd.concat(rare_flags, ignore_index=True)
    print(f"Detected {len(rare_cases)} rows with rare categorical values.")
    display(rare_cases[['flagged_column', 'rare_value'] + categorical_cols + ['heartdisease']])
else:
    print("No rare categorical patterns detected.")

NOTE:

No rare/outliers have been detected in the categorical features.

import pandas as pd
import seaborn as sns
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# Loading the dataset
df = pd.read_csv("heart.csv")
df.columns = df.columns.str.lower()  # lowercase column names

# Detecting categorical columns
cat_cols = df.select_dtypes(include=['object', 'category']).columns.tolist()

# Manually add likely categorical variables 
likely_categoricals = ['sex', 'chestpaintype', 'fastingbs', 'restingecg', 'exerciseangina', 'st_slope']
for col in likely_categoricals:
    if col in df.columns and col not in cat_cols:
        cat_cols.append(col)

# Converting to category dtype
for col in cat_cols:
    df[col] = df[col].astype('category')

# Creating a new column to track anomalies
df['categorical_anomaly'] = False

# Total number of rows
total_rows = len(df)

# Plot
sns.set(style="whitegrid")
plt.figure(figsize=(18, 15))
plot_num = 1

for col in cat_cols:
    value_counts = df[col].value_counts(dropna=False)
    rare_categories = value_counts[value_counts / total_rows < 0.01].index.tolist()

    # If rare categories exist, mark them as anomaly
    if rare_categories:
        is_rare = df[col].isin(rare_categories)
        df.loc[is_rare, 'categorical_anomaly'] = True

    # Also flag missing values
    df.loc[df[col].isna(), 'categorical_anomaly'] = True

    # Plot
    plt.subplot(3, 3, plot_num)
    sns.countplot(data=df, x=col, hue=is_rare if rare_categories else df[col], palette="Set2")
    plt.title(f"{col} (Red = Rare <1%)")
    plot_num += 1
    if plot_num > 9:
        break

plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

# Show flagged rows
flagged = df[df['categorical_anomaly']]
print("\nFlagged Categorical Anomalies:")
print(flagged[['categorical_anomaly'] + cat_cols].head())

Flagged Categorical Anomalies:
Empty DataFrame
Columns: [categorical_anomaly, sex, chestpaintype, restingecg, exerciseangina, st_slope, fastingbs]
Index: []

Model Building

Logistic Regression

# importing the required libraries

import pandas as pd
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
from sklearn.preprocessing import LabelEncoder, StandardScaler
from sklearn.linear_model import LogisticRegression
from sklearn.metrics import accuracy_score, classification_report, confusion_matrix

# Loading the dataset
df = pd.read_csv("heart.csv")

# Encoding categorical features
df_encoded = df.copy()
categorical_cols = ['Sex', 'ChestPainType', 'RestingECG', 'ExerciseAngina', 'ST_Slope']
for col in categorical_cols:
    le = LabelEncoder()
    df_encoded[col] = le.fit_transform(df[col])

# Splitting features and target
X = df_encoded.drop("HeartDisease", axis=1)
y = df_encoded["HeartDisease"]

# Feature scaling 
scaler = StandardScaler()
X_scaled = scaler.fit_transform(X)

# Train-test split
X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X_scaled, y, test_size=0.2, random_state=42)

# Train Logistic Regression model
model = LogisticRegression(random_state=42)
model.fit(X_train, y_train)

# Predictions
y_pred = model.predict(X_test)

# Evaluation
print("=== Logistic Regression Results ===")
print(f"Accuracy: {accuracy_score(y_test, y_pred):.4f}")
print("\nConfusion Matrix:")
print(confusion_matrix(y_test, y_pred))
print("\nClassification Report:")
print(classification_report(y_test, y_pred))

=== Logistic Regression Results ===
Accuracy: 0.8478

Confusion Matrix:
[[68  9]
 [19 88]]

Classification Report:
              precision    recall  f1-score   support

           0       0.78      0.88      0.83        77
           1       0.91      0.82      0.86       107

    accuracy                           0.85       184
   macro avg       0.84      0.85      0.85       184
weighted avg       0.85      0.85      0.85       184

# importing the required libraries
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split, GridSearchCV
from sklearn.preprocessing import StandardScaler, LabelEncoder
from sklearn.linear_model import LogisticRegression
from sklearn.metrics import classification_report, accuracy_score, confusion_matrix
from imblearn.over_sampling import SMOTE
import seaborn as sns
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# Loading the dataset
df = pd.read_csv("heart.csv")

# Encoding categorical features
cat_cols = df.select_dtypes(include=['object']).columns
for col in cat_cols:
    df[col] = LabelEncoder().fit_transform(df[col])



for col in ['Cholesterol', 'RestingBP', 'Oldpeak', 'MaxHR']:
    df = remove_outliers_iqr(df, col)

# SPLIT AND BALANCE DATA
X = df.drop('HeartDisease', axis=1)
y = df['HeartDisease']

# Balance using SMOTE
X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X, y, test_size=0.2, random_state=42)
sm = SMOTE(random_state=42)
X_train, y_train = sm.fit_resample(X_train, y_train)

# FEATURE SCALING 
scaler = StandardScaler()
X_train = scaler.fit_transform(X_train)
X_test = scaler.transform(X_test)

#  MODEL TUNING 
param_grid = {
    'C': [0.01, 0.1, 1, 10, 100],
    'penalty': ['l1', 'l2'],
    'solver': ['liblinear']
}

grid = GridSearchCV(LogisticRegression(), param_grid, cv=5, scoring='accuracy')
grid.fit(X_train, y_train)

# EVALUATION 
y_pred = grid.predict(X_test)

print("Best Params:", grid.best_params_)
print("Accuracy:", accuracy_score(y_test, y_pred))
print("\nClassification Report:\n", classification_report(y_test, y_pred))
print("Confusion Matrix:\n", confusion_matrix(y_test, y_pred))

Best Params: {'C': 1, 'penalty': 'l2', 'solver': 'liblinear'}
Accuracy: 0.851063829787234

Classification Report:
               precision    recall  f1-score   support

           0       0.86      0.85      0.85        71
           1       0.85      0.86      0.85        70

    accuracy                           0.85       141
   macro avg       0.85      0.85      0.85       141
weighted avg       0.85      0.85      0.85       141

Confusion Matrix:
 [[60 11]
 [10 60]]

C:\Users\Sharon Karabel\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\sklearn\base.py:474: FutureWarning:

`BaseEstimator._validate_data` is deprecated in 1.6 and will be removed in 1.7. Use `sklearn.utils.validation.validate_data` instead. This function becomes public and is part of the scikit-learn developer API.

Interpretation:

We have achieved accuracy of 84.78 before and now after applying the gridsearchcv, we got 85.10.

Random Forest

import pandas as pd
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split, GridSearchCV
from sklearn.preprocessing import LabelEncoder
from sklearn.ensemble import RandomForestClassifier
from sklearn.metrics import accuracy_score, classification_report, confusion_matrix
from sklearn.preprocessing import StandardScaler

# Load the dataset
df = pd.read_csv("heart.csv")

# Encode categorical variables
df_encoded = df.copy()
label_encoders = {}
categorical_cols = ['Sex', 'ChestPainType', 'RestingECG', 'ExerciseAngina', 'ST_Slope']

for col in categorical_cols:
    le = LabelEncoder()
    df_encoded[col] = le.fit_transform(df[col])
    label_encoders[col] = le

# Defining features and target
X = df_encoded.drop("HeartDisease", axis=1)
y = df_encoded["HeartDisease"]

# Scale the features
scaler = StandardScaler()
X = scaler.fit_transform(X)

# Train-test split
X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X, y, test_size=0.2, random_state=42)

# ----- Hyperparameter Tuning -----
param_grid = {
    'n_estimators': [100, 200, 300],
    'max_depth': [5, 10, 15, None],
    'min_samples_split': [2, 5, 10],
    'min_samples_leaf': [1, 2, 4]
}

grid = GridSearchCV(RandomForestClassifier(random_state=42), param_grid, cv=5, scoring='accuracy', n_jobs=-1)
grid.fit(X_train, y_train)

# Best model
best_rf = grid.best_estimator_
y_pred = best_rf.predict(X_test)

# Evaluation
print("=== Random Forest Classifier Results (Tuned) ===")
print(f"Best Parameters: {grid.best_params_}")
print(f"Accuracy: {accuracy_score(y_test, y_pred):.4f}")
print("\nConfusion Matrix:")
print(confusion_matrix(y_test, y_pred))
print("\nClassification Report:")
print(classification_report(y_test, y_pred))

=== Random Forest Classifier Results (Tuned) ===
Best Parameters: {'max_depth': 10, 'min_samples_leaf': 4, 'min_samples_split': 10, 'n_estimators': 200}
Accuracy: 0.8804

Confusion Matrix:
[[66 11]
 [11 96]]

Classification Report:
              precision    recall  f1-score   support

           0       0.86      0.86      0.86        77
           1       0.90      0.90      0.90       107

    accuracy                           0.88       184
   macro avg       0.88      0.88      0.88       184
weighted avg       0.88      0.88      0.88       184

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split, GridSearchCV
from sklearn.preprocessing import LabelEncoder, StandardScaler
from sklearn.ensemble import RandomForestClassifier
from sklearn.metrics import accuracy_score, classification_report, confusion_matrix
from sklearn.feature_selection import RFECV

# Load the data
df = pd.read_csv("heart.csv")

# Encode categorical variables
categorical_cols = ['Sex', 'ChestPainType', 'RestingECG', 'ExerciseAngina', 'ST_Slope']
for col in categorical_cols:
    df[col] = LabelEncoder().fit_transform(df[col])

# Outlier removal using IQR
def remove_outliers(df, col):
    Q1 = df[col].quantile(0.25)
    Q3 = df[col].quantile(0.75)
    IQR = Q3 - Q1
    lower = Q1 - 1.5 * IQR
    upper = Q3 + 1.5 * IQR
    return df[(df[col] >= lower) & (df[col] <= upper)]

for col in ['Cholesterol', 'RestingBP', 'Oldpeak', 'MaxHR']:
    df = remove_outliers(df, col)

#  splitting the Feature and target 
X = df.drop("HeartDisease", axis=1)
y = df["HeartDisease"]

# Scale features
scaler = StandardScaler()
X_scaled = scaler.fit_transform(X)

# Recursive Feature Elimination with Cross Validation
base_rf = RandomForestClassifier(random_state=42)
rfecv = RFECV(estimator=base_rf, step=1, cv=5, scoring='accuracy')
rfecv.fit(X_scaled, y)

# Reduced features
X_selected = rfecv.transform(X_scaled)

# Train-test split
X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X_selected, y, test_size=0.2, random_state=42)

# Hyperparameter grid
param_grid = {
    'n_estimators': [200, 300, 500],
    'max_depth': [10, 15, 20],
    'min_samples_split': [2, 5],
    'min_samples_leaf': [1, 2],
    'class_weight': ['balanced']  # Handling imbalance internally
}

grid = GridSearchCV(RandomForestClassifier(random_state=42),
                    param_grid, cv=5, scoring='accuracy', n_jobs=-1)
grid.fit(X_train, y_train)

# Evaluation
best_model = grid.best_estimator_
y_pred = best_model.predict(X_test)

print("=== Final Random Forest Model ===")
print("Best Params:", grid.best_params_)
print(f"Accuracy: {accuracy_score(y_test, y_pred):.4f}")
print("\nConfusion Matrix:")
print(confusion_matrix(y_test, y_pred))
print("\nClassification Report:")
print(classification_report(y_test, y_pred))

=== Final Random Forest Model ===
Best Params: {'class_weight': 'balanced', 'max_depth': 15, 'min_samples_leaf': 2, 'min_samples_split': 5, 'n_estimators': 200}
Accuracy: 0.8936

Confusion Matrix:
[[61 10]
 [ 5 65]]

Classification Report:
              precision    recall  f1-score   support

           0       0.92      0.86      0.89        71
           1       0.87      0.93      0.90        70

    accuracy                           0.89       141
   macro avg       0.90      0.89      0.89       141
weighted avg       0.90      0.89      0.89       141

Interpretation:

We have increased the accuracy from 88.04 to 89.36 by applying IQR and scaling the features.

XGBoost

import pandas as pd
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
from sklearn.preprocessing import LabelEncoder
from sklearn.metrics import accuracy_score, classification_report, confusion_matrix
from xgboost import XGBClassifier

# Loading the dataset
df = pd.read_csv("heart.csv")  # Adjust path if needed

# Encode categorical features
df_encoded = df.copy()
categorical_cols = ['Sex', 'ChestPainType', 'RestingECG', 'ExerciseAngina', 'ST_Slope']
for col in categorical_cols:
    le = LabelEncoder()
    df_encoded[col] = le.fit_transform(df[col])

# Define features and target
X = df_encoded.drop("HeartDisease", axis=1)
y = df_encoded["HeartDisease"]

# Train-test split
X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X, y, test_size=0.2, random_state=42)

# Initialize XGBoost model
xgb = XGBClassifier(use_label_encoder=False, eval_metric='logloss', random_state=42)
xgb.fit(X_train, y_train)

# Make predictions
y_pred = xgb.predict(X_test)

# Evaluation of model
print("=== XGBoost Classifier Results ===")
print(f"Accuracy: {accuracy_score(y_test, y_pred):.4f}")
print("\nConfusion Matrix:")
print(confusion_matrix(y_test, y_pred))
print("\nClassification Report:")
print(classification_report(y_test, y_pred))

=== XGBoost Classifier Results ===
Accuracy: 0.8696

Confusion Matrix:
[[69  8]
 [16 91]]

Classification Report:
              precision    recall  f1-score   support

           0       0.81      0.90      0.85        77
           1       0.92      0.85      0.88       107

    accuracy                           0.87       184
   macro avg       0.87      0.87      0.87       184
weighted avg       0.87      0.87      0.87       184

C:\Users\Sharon Karabel\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\xgboost\core.py:158: UserWarning:

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Parameters: { "use_label_encoder" } are not used.

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
from sklearn.preprocessing import LabelEncoder, StandardScaler
from sklearn.metrics import accuracy_score, classification_report, confusion_matrix
from xgboost import XGBClassifier, plot_importance
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# Load dataset
df = pd.read_csv("heart.csv")

# Encode categorical features
df_encoded = df.copy()
categorical_cols = ['Sex', 'ChestPainType', 'RestingECG', 'ExerciseAngina', 'ST_Slope']
for col in categorical_cols:
    label_encoder = LabelEncoder()
    df_encoded[col] = label_encoder.fit_transform(df_encoded[col])

# Define features and target
x = df_encoded.drop("HeartDisease", axis=1)
y = df_encoded["HeartDisease"]

# Scale numerical features
numeric_cols = x.select_dtypes(include=['int64', 'float64']).columns
scaler = StandardScaler()
x[numeric_cols] = scaler.fit_transform(x[numeric_cols])

# Stratified train-test split
x_train, x_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(
    x, y, test_size=0.2, stratify=y, random_state=42
)

# Initialize and train XGBoost model
xgb_model = XGBClassifier(
    n_estimators=300,
    learning_rate=0.03,
    max_depth=4,
    subsample=0.8,
    colsample_bytree=0.8,
    use_label_encoder=False,
    eval_metric='logloss',
    random_state=42
)

xgb_model.fit(x_train, y_train)

# Make predictions
y_pred = xgb_model.predict(x_test)

# Evaluation
print("=== XGBoost Classifier Results ===")
print(f"Accuracy: {accuracy_score(y_test, y_pred):.4f}")
print("\nConfusion Matrix:")
print(confusion_matrix(y_test, y_pred))
print("\nClassification Report:")
print(classification_report(y_test, y_pred))

=== XGBoost Classifier Results ===
Accuracy: 0.8967

Confusion Matrix:
[[73  9]
 [10 92]]

Classification Report:
              precision    recall  f1-score   support

           0       0.88      0.89      0.88        82
           1       0.91      0.90      0.91       102

    accuracy                           0.90       184
   macro avg       0.90      0.90      0.90       184
weighted avg       0.90      0.90      0.90       184

C:\Users\Sharon Karabel\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\xgboost\core.py:158: UserWarning:

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Parameters: { "use_label_encoder" } are not used.

Interpretation:

In the beginning we got an accuracy of 86.96 using XGBoost model.

After implementing XGBClassifierfit() and early_stoppings, we got higher accuracy of 89.67

Naive Bayes Classifier

import pandas as pd
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
from sklearn.preprocessing import LabelEncoder
from sklearn.naive_bayes import GaussianNB
from sklearn.metrics import classification_report, accuracy_score, confusion_matrix

# Load data
df = pd.read_csv("heart.csv")

# Encode categorical variables
df_encoded = df.copy()
label_encoders = {}
categorical_cols = ['Sex', 'ChestPainType', 'RestingECG', 'ExerciseAngina', 'ST_Slope']

for col in categorical_cols:
    le = LabelEncoder()
    df_encoded[col] = le.fit_transform(df[col])
    label_encoders[col] = le  # Save encoder if needed later

# Split data into features and target
X = df_encoded.drop('HeartDisease', axis=1)
y = df_encoded['HeartDisease']

# Train-test split
X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X, y, test_size=0.2, random_state=42)

# Initialize and train Gaussian Naive Bayes model
model = GaussianNB()
model.fit(X_train, y_train)

# Predictions
y_pred = model.predict(X_test)

# Evaluation
print("=== Naive Bayes Classifier Results ===")
print(f"Accuracy: {accuracy_score(y_test, y_pred):.4f}")
print("\nConfusion Matrix:")
print(confusion_matrix(y_test, y_pred))
print("\nClassification Report:")
print(classification_report(y_test, y_pred))

=== Naive Bayes Classifier Results ===
Accuracy: 0.8424

Confusion Matrix:
[[65 12]
 [17 90]]

Classification Report:
              precision    recall  f1-score   support

           0       0.79      0.84      0.82        77
           1       0.88      0.84      0.86       107

    accuracy                           0.84       184
   macro avg       0.84      0.84      0.84       184
weighted avg       0.84      0.84      0.84       184

Before applying SMOTE to the models

import pandas as pd
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
from sklearn.preprocessing import LabelEncoder
from sklearn.linear_model import LogisticRegression
from sklearn.ensemble import RandomForestClassifier
from xgboost import XGBClassifier
from sklearn.naive_bayes import GaussianNB
from sklearn.metrics import accuracy_score, precision_score, recall_score, f1_score, roc_auc_score, confusion_matrix

# Load dataset
df = pd.read_csv("heart.csv")  # Ensure correct path

# Encode categorical variables
cat_cols = ['Sex', 'ChestPainType', 'RestingECG', 'ExerciseAngina', 'ST_Slope']
for col in cat_cols:
    df[col] = LabelEncoder().fit_transform(df[col])

# Define X and y
X = df.drop("HeartDisease", axis=1)
y = df["HeartDisease"]

# Train-test split
X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X, y, stratify=y, test_size=0.2, random_state=42)

# Define models
models = {
    "Logistic Regression": LogisticRegression(max_iter=1000),
    "Random Forest": RandomForestClassifier(n_estimators=200, random_state=42),
    "XGBoost": XGBClassifier(use_label_encoder=False, eval_metric='logloss', random_state=42),
    "Naive Bayes": GaussianNB()
}

# Evaluate each model
metrics = {}

for name, model in models.items():
    model.fit(X_train, y_train)
    y_pred = model.predict(X_test)
    y_proba = model.predict_proba(X_test)[:, 1] if hasattr(model, "predict_proba") else y_pred
    
    metrics[name] = {
        "Accuracy": round(accuracy_score(y_test, y_pred), 4),
        "Precision": round(precision_score(y_test, y_pred), 4),
        "Recall": round(recall_score(y_test, y_pred), 4),
        "F1 Score": round(f1_score(y_test, y_pred), 4),
        "ROC AUC": round(roc_auc_score(y_test, y_proba), 4),
        "Confusion Matrix": confusion_matrix(y_test, y_pred).tolist()  # as list for readability
    }

# Create DataFrame for table
performance_table = pd.DataFrame.from_dict(metrics, orient='index')
performance_table.reset_index(inplace=True)
performance_table.rename(columns={'index': 'Model'}, inplace=True)

# Display table
print(performance_table)

                 Model  Accuracy  Precision  Recall  F1 Score  ROC AUC  \
0  Logistic Regression    0.8696     0.8482  0.9314    0.8879   0.8957   
1        Random Forest    0.8913     0.8868  0.9216    0.9038   0.9298   
2              XGBoost    0.8750     0.8911  0.8824    0.8867   0.9254   
3          Naive Bayes    0.8913     0.8942  0.9118    0.9029   0.9280   

       Confusion Matrix  
0   [[65, 17], [7, 95]]  
1   [[70, 12], [8, 94]]  
2  [[71, 11], [12, 90]]  
3   [[71, 11], [9, 93]]  

C:\Users\Sharon Karabel\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\xgboost\core.py:158: UserWarning:

[01:50:27] WARNING: C:\buildkite-agent\builds\buildkite-windows-cpu-autoscaling-group-i-08cbc0333d8d4aae1-1\xgboost\xgboost-ci-windows\src\learner.cc:740: 
Parameters: { "use_label_encoder" } are not used.

Interpretation:

1. Random Forest and Naive Bayes both achieved the highest accuracy (89.13%), with strong recall and F1 scores (above 0.90), making them highly effective even without addressing class imbalance.

2. Naive Bayes has the highest precision (0.8942) among all, showing good ability to avoid false positives, and its ROC AUC (0.9280) is competitive with Random Forest.

3. XGBoost performs reasonably well, but its recall (0.8824) is slightly lower than the top two, making it third-best in this setting.

4. Logistic Regression shows high recall (0.9314)—meaning it identifies most positive cases—but has the lowest precision and ROC AUC, indicating more false positives and relatively weaker probability calibration.

Conclusion:

Random Forest and Naive Bayes are the top contenders with balanced and high performance across all metrics. However, Random Forest slightly edges out in terms of overall AUC and F1, making it the preferred choice.

Logistic Regression, while interpretable, performs slightly worse overall, especially in terms of precision and AUC. Balancing the dataset (as you did with SMOTE later) helps refine these models further, particularly boosting Naive Bayes and reducing Logistic Regression's bias toward the majority class.

After applying SMOTE to all the models

from imblearn.over_sampling import SMOTE
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
from sklearn.metrics import accuracy_score, precision_score, recall_score, f1_score, roc_auc_score, confusion_matrix
from sklearn.linear_model import LogisticRegression
from sklearn.ensemble import RandomForestClassifier
from xgboost import XGBClassifier
from sklearn.naive_bayes import GaussianNB
import pandas as pd
from sklearn.preprocessing import LabelEncoder

# Load dataset
df = pd.read_csv("heart.csv")

# Encode categorical columns
cat_cols = ['Sex', 'ChestPainType', 'RestingECG', 'ExerciseAngina', 'ST_Slope']
for col in cat_cols:
    df[col] = LabelEncoder().fit_transform(df[col])

X = df.drop("HeartDisease", axis=1)
y = df["HeartDisease"]

# Split dataset
X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X, y, stratify=y, test_size=0.2, random_state=42)

# Apply SMOTE
smote = SMOTE(random_state=42)
X_resampled, y_resampled = smote.fit_resample(X_train, y_train)

# Define models
models = {
    "Logistic Regression": LogisticRegression(max_iter=1000),
    "Random Forest": RandomForestClassifier(n_estimators=200, random_state=42),
    "XGBoost": XGBClassifier(use_label_encoder=False, eval_metric='logloss', random_state=42),
    "Naive Bayes": GaussianNB()
}

# Evaluate models
results = {}

for name, model in models.items():
    model.fit(X_resampled, y_resampled)
    y_pred = model.predict(X_test)
    y_proba = model.predict_proba(X_test)[:, 1] if hasattr(model, "predict_proba") else y_pred

    results[name] = {
        "Accuracy": round(accuracy_score(y_test, y_pred), 4),
        "Precision": round(precision_score(y_test, y_pred), 4),
        "Recall": round(recall_score(y_test, y_pred), 4),
        "F1 Score": round(f1_score(y_test, y_pred), 4),
        "ROC AUC": round(roc_auc_score(y_test, y_proba), 4),
        "Confusion Matrix": confusion_matrix(y_test, y_pred).tolist()
    }

# Convert to table
results_df = pd.DataFrame.from_dict(results, orient='index')
results_df.reset_index(inplace=True)
results_df.rename(columns={'index': 'Model'}, inplace=True)

# Print the performance table
print(results_df)

C:\Users\Sharon Karabel\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\sklearn\base.py:474: FutureWarning:

`BaseEstimator._validate_data` is deprecated in 1.6 and will be removed in 1.7. Use `sklearn.utils.validation.validate_data` instead. This function becomes public and is part of the scikit-learn developer API.

                 Model  Accuracy  Precision  Recall  F1 Score  ROC AUC  \
0  Logistic Regression    0.8587     0.8654  0.8824    0.8738   0.9034   
1        Random Forest    0.9076     0.9126  0.9216    0.9171   0.9380   
2              XGBoost    0.8750     0.8911  0.8824    0.8867   0.9283   
3          Naive Bayes    0.8967     0.8952  0.9216    0.9082   0.9316   

       Confusion Matrix  
0  [[68, 14], [12, 90]]  
1    [[73, 9], [8, 94]]  
2  [[71, 11], [12, 90]]  
3   [[71, 11], [8, 94]]  

C:\Users\Sharon Karabel\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\xgboost\core.py:158: UserWarning:

[01:50:31] WARNING: C:\buildkite-agent\builds\buildkite-windows-cpu-autoscaling-group-i-08cbc0333d8d4aae1-1\xgboost\xgboost-ci-windows\src\learner.cc:740: 
Parameters: { "use_label_encoder" } are not used.

Interpretation:

1. Random Forest outperforms all other models with the highest accuracy (90.76%), F1 Score (91.71%), and ROC AUC (0.9380). It balances both precision and recall, making it the best-performing model overall after applying SMOTE.

2. Naive Bayes significantly improves after SMOTE. Its F1 score (90.82%) and ROC AUC (0.9316) are second only to Random Forest, indicating strong generalization on the balanced data.

3. XGBoost also performs well but ranks third. While it retains a high ROC AUC (0.9283), its F1 Score (88.67%) is slightly lower than the top two.

4. Logistic Regression remains the least performing model post-SMOTE, although it still maintains decent metrics (F1 Score: 87.38%, ROC AUC: 0.9034). It’s a good interpretable baseline, but lags behind in overall accuracy.

Conclusion:

After handling class imbalance using SMOTE, all models show noticeable improvement. However, Random Forest emerges as the top performer, offering the best trade-off between accuracy, precision, recall, and AUC. Naive Bayes also becomes a surprisingly competitive model. While XGBoost and Logistic Regression are still effective, they are slightly behind in precision and F1 performance. Thus, Random Forest is the recommended model for predicting heart disease in this context.

import plotly.graph_objects as go

fig = go.Figure(go.Indicator(
    mode="gauge+number",
    value=90.76,
    number={'suffix': "%"},
    title={'text': "Model Accuracy of Random Forest Model", 'font': {'size': 18}},
    gauge={
        'axis': {'range': [0, 100]},
        'bar': {'color': "darkblue"},
        'steps': [
            {'range': [0, 60], 'color': 'red'},
            {'range': [60, 80], 'color': 'yellow'},
            {'range': [80, 100], 'color': 'lightgreen'}
        ],
        'threshold': {
            'line': {'color': "black", 'width': 4},
            'thickness': 0.75,
            'value': 90}
    }
))

# Set smaller size
fig.update_layout(
    width=400,
    height=300,
    margin=dict(l=20, r=20, t=50, b=20)
)

fig.show()

Model Evaluation

import pandas as pd
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
from sklearn.preprocessing import LabelEncoder
from sklearn.ensemble import RandomForestClassifier
from sklearn.metrics import roc_curve, auc
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# Load and preprocess data
df = pd.read_csv("heart.csv")
cat_cols = ['Sex', 'ChestPainType', 'RestingECG', 'ExerciseAngina', 'ST_Slope']
for col in cat_cols:
    df[col] = LabelEncoder().fit_transform(df[col])

X = df.drop("HeartDisease", axis=1)
y = df["HeartDisease"]

# Split
X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X, y, stratify=y, test_size=0.2, random_state=42)

# Train best model
model = RandomForestClassifier(n_estimators=200, random_state=42)
model.fit(X_train, y_train)

# Predict probabilities
y_proba = model.predict_proba(X_test)[:, 1]
fpr, tpr, thresholds = roc_curve(y_test, y_proba)
roc_auc = auc(fpr, tpr)

# Plot ROC
plt.figure(figsize=(8, 6))
plt.plot(fpr, tpr, color='red', lw=2, label=f'ROC Curve (AUC = {roc_auc:.2f})')
plt.plot([0, 1], [0, 1], color='black', linestyle='--')
plt.xlabel('False Positive Rate')
plt.ylabel('True Positive Rate')
plt.title('ROC Curve - Random Forest')
plt.legend(loc='lower right')
plt.grid(True)
plt.show()

Interpretation:

The model is well-calibrated and separates positive (HeartDisease=1) and negative (HeartDisease=0) classes effectively.

The Random Forest model achieves high diagnostic accuracy for heart disease, as shown by a high ROC AUC score. This makes it a reliable model for identifying at-risk individuals in dataset.

Model Explainability - LIME - Local Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanations

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
from sklearn.ensemble import RandomForestClassifier
from sklearn.preprocessing import LabelEncoder
from lime.lime_tabular import LimeTabularExplainer

# Load and encode data
df = pd.read_csv("heart.csv")
df_encoded = df.copy()

# Encode categorical variables
for col in df_encoded.select_dtypes(include='object').columns:
    df_encoded[col] = LabelEncoder().fit_transform(df_encoded[col])

X = df_encoded.drop("HeartDisease", axis=1)
y = df_encoded["HeartDisease"]

# Train-test split
X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X, y, test_size=0.2, random_state=42)

# Train model
model = RandomForestClassifier(n_estimators=100, random_state=42)
model.fit(X_train, y_train)

# Set up LIME explainer
explainer = LimeTabularExplainer(
    training_data=X_train.values,
    feature_names=X.columns.tolist(),
    class_names=['No Disease', 'Disease'],
    mode='classification'
)

# Explain one prediction
i = 5  # Index of test instance
exp = explainer.explain_instance(X_test.iloc[i].values, model.predict_proba, num_features=6)

# Show explanation in notebook
exp.show_in_notebook(show_table=True)

C:\Users\Sharon Karabel\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\sklearn\utils\validation.py:2739: UserWarning:

X does not have valid feature names, but RandomForestClassifier was fitted with feature names

Interpretation:

Actual Predicted Probabilities:

1. No Disease: 34%

2. Disease: 66%

Features Supporting "Disease" (Orange Bars)

Feature	Contribution	Explanation
ST_Slope <= 1.0	+0.33	A flat ST slope is strongly associated with disease.
ChestPainType <= 0.0	+0.14	Encoded type 0 may be typical angina — likely indicating heart issues.
FastingBS > 0.0	+0.07	High fasting blood sugar (i.e., diabetes risk) contributes to disease likelihood.

Features Supporting "No Disease" (Blue Bars)

Feature	Contribution	Explanation
ExerciseAngina <= 0.0	-0.13	No exercise-induced angina reduces disease likelihood.
0.00 < Oldpeak <= 0.6	-0.09	Low ST depression suggests less heart strain — healthy sign.
MaxHR > 155.0	-0.06	High maximum heart rate usually reflects good fitness levels.

Feature Values (Bottom Table)

Feature	Value	Meaning
ST_Slope	1.00	Flat slope (possibly unhealthy)
ChestPainType	0.00	Encoded pain type (e.g., typical angina)
ExerciseAngina	0.00	No angina during exercise
Oldpeak	0.20	Very low ST depression — good
FastingBS	1.00	Fasting blood sugar is high (risk)
MaxHR	163.00	Very high HR — typically a healthy sign

Observations:

The model predicted "Disease" with 66% confidence, mainly because:

1. The patient has flat ST slope and typical chest pain.

2. Fasting blood sugar is high, a risk factor.

However, the model also noted healthy indicators:

1. No angina during exercise.

2. High max heart rate and low ST depression.

The LIME explanation shows that the model predicts Heart Disease (66% probability) due to key risk indicators such as a flat ST slope, typical chest pain, and high fasting blood sugar. Although some features like no exercise-induced angina and high maximum heart rate suggest good health, the risk factors outweigh the healthy signs, leading to the prediction.

Model Deployment-Interactive Dashboard

from IPython.display import display, HTML

display(HTML('''
    <a href="https://heart-disease-risk-prediction-using-patient-records-aqxmiml4qu.streamlit.app/" target="_blank">
        <button style="
            background-color: #F08080;
            border: none;
            color: black;
            padding: 12px 24px;
            text-align: center;
            text-decoration: none;
            display: inline-block;
            font-size: 16px;
            border-radius: 6px;
            cursor: pointer;">
            ❤️ Open Heart Disease Prediction App
        </button>
    </a>
'''))

❤️ Open Heart Disease Prediction App

IMPORTANT NOTE:

I have created an interactive AI doctor app where we enter the patient details and the AI bot gives us advices on medications, exercise, food and tests need to be taken. And we can download the prescription in PDF format.

To access the app please click on the button : Open Heart Disease Prediction App above. This will take you to another tab and you can access it.